Decade

The 1990s

20 dated items, 0 rulebook editions and 133 championship result rows are in the record for the 1990s.

Years with their own page

A year gets a page when the record holds at least 3 dated items for it.

1990 5 dated items
1996 4 dated items
1997 3 dated items

Dated items

1990

1990: London hosts the All-Ireland handball final in 1990, only the second time an All-Ireland final in any GAA code is played outside Ireland Source: GAA Handball Ireland, "History" (seen 28 October 2026)
20 June 1990 to 14 October 1994: The USHA's 1990 four-wall rules with interpretations and its 1994 one-wall rules (The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules With Interpretations and One-Wall and Three-Wall Addendum Revised 1991 (1990), The New and Source: Colorado Handball Association, "The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 19 May 1998)
20 June 1990: 'The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules With Interpretations', adopted 20 June 1990 and printed in 1991, in 46 pages by one catalog record (The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules With Source: Colorado Handball Association, "The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 19 May 1998)
20 June 1990: Eye protection, timeouts (three in a 21-point game, two in an 11-point game) and the 11-point tiebreak are first in the texts held in the USHA's rules of 1990 (The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules With Source: Colorado Handball Association, "The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 19 May 1998)
20 June 1990: A USHA four-wall rule text is amended on 20 June 1990; the 1991 book retitles the set 'Revised 1991' Source: Colorado Handball Association, "The Official United States Handball Association Handball Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 19 May 1998)

1991

1991: USHA publishes a 'Revised 1991' rule book with one-wall and three-wall addendums and republishes its one-wall rules, changing a foot-fault word from EXTEND to TOUCH Source: US Handball Association, "4-Wall Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 27 August 2001)

1993

1993: A 1993 USHA one-wall rule book is found to have lost the rule that games postponed by weather resume with the same score; the USHA says it was deleted by mistake Source: US Handball Association, "Handball Questions and Answers" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)

1994

14 October 1994: The serving-side hinder fault enters the record in the USHA's one-wall rules of 14 October 1994 (The New and Official United States Handball Association One-Wall Rules With Interpretations 1995 (1994)); it reaches the Council by January Source: US Handball Association, "Current Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)
14 October 1994: 'The New and Official' USHA One-Wall Rules, adopted 14 October 1994 (The New and Official United States Handball Association One-Wall Rules With Interpretations 1995 (1994)), on the USHA's web site by January 1997: the earliest USHA Source: US Handball Association, "Current Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)

1995

1995: The 1995 USHA One-Wall Rules with Interpretations harmonise wording with the four-wall book: EXTEND is restored in the foot-fault rule and the permission to step on a service line is deleted Source: US Handball Association, "Current Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)

1996

1996-2006: The Council's 'Irish handball yearbook' (ISSN 1649-0371), annual 1996-2006, none in 1997 (National Library of Ireland holdings). Source: National Library of Ireland catalogue, "Irish handball yearbook" (seen 28 October 2026)
1996-2010: The big ball gets bodies: SAHA (1996) and King of the Courts (1998); USWA (2010) with its own rules from 2018 (Wall Ball Rules (2021) etc.), which never state court or ball (H-75). Source: United States Wall Ball Association, "Wall Ball Rules" (Wayback snapshot of 11 April 2021)
1996: St. Albans Handball Association founded (St. Albans Handball Association, St. Albans Handball Association, "About" (seen 27 October 2026)); King of the Courts from 1998 (King of the Courts; champions list St. Albans Handball Association, Source: St. Albans Handball Association, "About" (seen 27 October 2026)
1996: The Irish Handball Council begins an annual 'Irish Handball Yearbook' in 1996 (none in 1997), continued by 'Top Ace' from 2007 Source: National Library of Ireland catalogue, "Irish handball yearbook" (seen 28 October 2026)

1997

1997: 'Handball Playing Rules', an Irish Handball Council publication from Croke Park cited once in a 2002 bibliography (Handball Playing Rules (1997)). Source: Internet Archive, full-text search for "hand ball" AND "rules" AND "1886" (seen 28 October 2026)
1997: GAA wallball open Irish nationals from 1997 (Wallball Open Irish Nationals): the one-wall game arrives in the Irish record. Source: GAA Handball Ireland, wallball nationals roll of honour (seen 28 October 2026)
1997: The 47th USHA Four-Wall Nationals are held at the Michigan Athletic Club in 1997, where the pro champions had also won in 1992 Source: US Handball Association, "Four-Wall National Championships" (Wayback snapshot of 31 January 1997)

1998

18 February 1998: A USHA past president reports in February 1998 record 1997 income above $1.1 million, up $100,000, and a mortgage on the Tucson building to be paid off after five years Source: US Handball Association, past-presidents page, a letter dated 18 February 1998 (Wayback snapshot of 13 May 1998)

1999

31 January 1999: 664 of the 1,526 five-word runs new in the four-wall text of 1999 were already in the one-wall text of 1994 (96 shared clauses in Parts 2 to 5); whether the one-wall book led cannot be decided without a four-wall text of 1991-98. Source: Colorado Handball Association, "Part 1" (Wayback snapshot of 14 September 2000)
31 January 1999: The Official USHA Handball Rules, 1999 (The Official USHA Handball Rules, 1999 (1999)); the one-wall rules were revised between January 1998 and August 1999 (H-146). Source: Colorado Handball Association, "Part 1" (Wayback snapshot of 14 September 2000)

Championships held

What the record does not hold

The record holds nothing for the 1990s under rulebook editions: no edition dated to the decade is listed.